Blue Tide (The Nike Chronicles Book 3) by M.L. Bullock

Author:M.L. Bullock [Bullock, M.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2018-07-16T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten—Heliope

Old Woman

Faydra, I know you are here. Do not hide from me.

I batted at the fog, as if I could shoo it away. That was impossible; it stuck to my hair and skin like a cold, clingy garment. It made my skin crawl, and I had the feeling that if I allowed it to, the fog would hide me forever. Never before had it been so thick, not here where the sun used to shine on the courtyard and temple continuously. The first time I came to see the Order, after Agrios took me as his wife, the Secret Temple shone like a bright ball of light, bathed as it was in golden sunshine. Each visit after that was much different. The fog began to encroach on that sunny place, creeping in from the woods that surrounded it, then into the plazas and hidden villas that were the homes of the Higher Orders.

Then over the long years, members of the Higher Order began to disappear in the fog. One by one they vanished until only six remained. Six to lead Oceanid kind, and no end in sight to the fog. The Order pulled from the races to fill those leadership roles, but the fog had done something else too.

It affected those of the original Order—those that still remained. And it affected them deeply. Faydra became crueler, darker, more desperate to control everything under her influence. Even her eyes darkened in color. It was almost as if that beautiful being of light no longer existed. Somehow the unholy fog had replaced it, and now darkness ruled.

To make matters even more troubling, Faydra no longer appeared to me as herself but used the bodies of humans to communicate her will on earth. That was very different from the way things used to be. The old Faydra, the strong, powerful Faydra, would never dream of relying on a human for help of any sort.

And now, according to Ramara, Faydra killed her human hosts—whether intentionally or not, that was an evil act. Not that it mattered, but I did not approve. Not at all.

The fog thickened so much that I could barely see the stairs now. Those stairs would lead me to the highest platform in the temple, a place where we used to watch the constellations move and interact with one another.

How overwhelmed I had been with it all when Agrios brought me here! He’d laughed at that and told me a secret. This was nothing compared to the Order’s former glory. The truth became apparent to me eventually. The Higher Order now dwelled on a veiled island, having been evicted from the high and lofty Mount Olympus and other such exquisite places around the globe. But for all my questions, I would learn no more about it. Agrios would not say who evicted the pantheon of gods and goddesses from their so-called eternal homes. But the world had changed. Men had changed and didn’t need the small gods and the jealous goddesses.

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